Patching Perl

aardvark has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to apply the TRIAL1 && TRIAL2 patches to perl5.6.0 so I can get AxKit to work on my system (linux). I've never used patch before so I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly. This is what I've done so far;

1) cd to /usr/src/perl/perl-5.6.0
2) /bin/sh /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1.patch
3) patch -p1 -N < /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1.patch
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Everything seemed to go smoothly, but when I typed 'perl -V' it still said it was 5.6.0 and that it was last compiled on Dec 2 2000. Did I miss a step here? Any help you could offer would be most appreciated.

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(tye)Re: Patching Perl by tye (Sage) on Mar 11, 2001 at 02:22 UTC
Yes! You patched the source code. Now you have to recompile! For example, here is my favorite method: `> mv -f config.sh config.sh.old > ./Configure -dsE ; You can edit config.sh here > ./Configure -S > make > make test ; Become "root", if you aren't already. # make install ; Answer "yes" that you want /usr/bin/perl set up.` [download] - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (tye)Re: Patching Perl by aardvark (Pilgrim) on Mar 11, 2001 at 03:55 UTC
d'oh! I knew I forgot something. Thanks tye and everyone who helped me out in the CB, you made my Saturday a better place to be 8-) I tried tye's config flags and everything went smoothly. Here are what the those Configure flags mean: -d : use defaults for all answers -s : silent mode, only echoes questions and essential information -E : stop at the end of questions, after having produced config.sh -S : perform variable substitutions on all .SH files Get Strong Together!!	[reply]